The following list provides links to the slides and code used in the guided coding sessions. The solutions to the challenges will be made available through RStudio Server.
SLIDES: Introduction to social media research
Introduction to RMarkdown and Setup (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Basics of text analysis
Introduction to Automated Text Analysis of Social Media Text (.Rmd file)
Using Quanteda to Analyze Social Media Text (.Rmd file)
Lists, Functions, and Loops (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 1 (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Dictionary methods applied to social media text
Dictionary methods (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 2 (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Supervised machine learning
Supervised machine learning (.Rmd file)
Advanced supervised machine learning (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 3 (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Discovery in social media text
Discovery in social media text (.Rmd file)
Topic models (.Rmd file)
(Advanced) topic models (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 4 (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Analysis of social media networks
Introduction to social network analysis (.Rmd file)
Discovery in networks (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 5 (.Rmd file)